VHDL simulation remote display

In the previous article we described the netpp server enhancements to our GHDL based simulation to feed data to a FIFO. So we had condemned that extra thread being a slave listening to commands. But what if the GHDL-Simulation would be a netpp master?

Inspired by Yann Guidons framebuffer example at http://ygdes.com/GHDL/, the thought came up: why not hack a netpp client and use the existing ‘display’ device server (which we use for our intelligent camera remote display). What performance would it have?